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Residents can hear City of
Toronto plans to undo the
extensive damage the emerald
ash borer is causing to a pair of
shoreline parks in Scarborough’s
Guildwood area at a meeting
tonight.
The invasive insect is set to
wipe out nearly all of the city’s
remaining ash trees within the
next few years, and losses along
the Scarborough Bluffs in areas
heavily planted with ash will be
particularly devastating.
“Many ash trees have died in
the past year and tree removals
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Both Guild Park and South
Marine Park were identified
as “priority sites” in the fight
against ash borer, and management plans were developed
to removed hazardous dead
ash, then replant other trees
to replace them and remove
invasive plants that may spread
when the ash are gone.
Residents can hear about
these plans and about tree
removals planned for the rest
of this winter, which may cause
temporary park and trail closures, during a public meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at
Cedarbrook Community Centre
on Eastpark Boulevard.

HOOPS ACTION: R. H. King Academy’s Jemar Smith, left, shoots
over Birchmount Park Collegiate’s Will Guevarra during high
school senior boys’ basketball action Monday afternoon at
Birchmount Park. Birchmount won the game 63-61.

The City of Toronto will redraw
the map for its recreation services this year, making swimming and other activities free
for everyone in many new parts
of Scarborough, North York and
Etobicoke.
The expansion of free recreation programs into these areas
is the latest stage in what could
be called a strategy for social
inclusion in post-amalgamation
Toronto, St. Paul’s Councillor
Joe Mihevc said.
“It’s our attempt to say,
‘Everyone has the right to
play, and to get fit,’” said
Mihevc, a member of city hall’s
Community Development
and Recreation Committee,
which approved the move last
month.
“When you can’t afford recreation, then you’re not a full
participant in the life of the
city.”
Besides having a Welcome
Policy, which can subsidize
recreation programs at one
location for low-income residents who apply, the city has
maintained 23 priority centres
where programs are free for all
residents.
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percentages, such as Thorncliffe
Park and Scarborough Village,
weren’t near the free city programs.
Toronto’s Recreation Service
Plan showed current centres
serve less than half the city’s
low-income areas, according
to 2006 data.
That’s set to change with the
addition of 16 more centres
offering free recreation – eight
in Scarborough, four in North
York, three in Etobicoke and one
each in East York and York – that
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Local pub helped out residents left
without power during recent ice storm
A Scarborough pub and restaurant opened its doors on
the only day it’s normally
closed to serve free hot meals
to residents left in the cold.
That day was Dec. 25; the
restaurant was the Black Dog
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The ONA, which represents
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RNs and registered practical nurses on the unit have
been replaced by personal
support workers, “leaving
the nurse-to-patient ratios
unsafe, unmanageable and
dangerous for patients.”
Because PSWs aren’t qualified to perform certain tasks,
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The hearing, which began
Tuesday and was expected to
finish today, isn’t open to the
public but the committee will
publish its findings later.
Merger
Rouge Valley’s board is
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(p.m.) and we opened up at
about 2:15 and people were
outside waiting to come
in.”
The restaurant, which
remained open until 6 p.m.,
changed its exterior sign to
read: “Have no power? Open
Christmas Day for free turkey
dinners” to get the word
out.
More than 120 people were
served.
“It was a tearjerker at times
and made us feel so warm
inside to be able to help, to be

A hearing this week at the
Rouge Valley Health System in
Scarborough will determine
whether or not the hospital
has reduced the number
of registered nurses in a
Centenary campus unit to
an unsafe level.
An Independent
Assessment Committee has
begun examining conditions
at the post-acute care unit
at the request of the Ontario
Nurses’ Association, which
says it has tried but failed to
resolve staffing concerns with
the hospital.
Patients in the unit are
said to be receiving complex
continuing care – sometimes
called alternate level of care
– because most are waiting
to go home or to another
facility.

McKenna said Monday.
“It’s not right for the
patients and their families,
and that’s why they’re pursuing this.”
David Brazeau, a Rouge
Valley spokesperson, said the
hospital introduced a new
model of care to the unit in
April 2011 that it believes
makes the best use of staff
resources.
Each patient on the unit
is assigned different types
of health professionals in a
“collaborative team effort,”
Brazeau said.
“Together, they provide
excellent care.”

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he heat is on. The race to the Oct. 27 municipal
election is going to be complex, and hit residents where they live – in their wards.
The high-profile race always focuses on who will
become the mayor of the City of Toronto. With former
Scarborough councillor and David Miller-era budget
chief David Soknacki filing his paper on Monday, the
first big name to challenge Rob Ford for the seat is in.
Let the sound-bites begin!
However, the mayor is just one vote on council. He
or she leads an agenda, but the real races - the races
that matter most – will be fought in the individual 44
wards across the city.
In 2014, there are many issues that need addressing
across the city – and each ward has its own unique
issues, as well as a shared vision
for the city.
our view
Knowing the people vying to
fill your ward’s council seat –
Opportunity
their values and platforms – is
to dig deep into extremely important. Knowing
that they have their own opincommunity
ions, and will not be on a ‘ mayoral ticket’, following the lead of
those who would be mayor.
It is through these 44 councillors decisions impacting your local parks, streetscapes, safety and business
concerns are voiced and brought to the bigger council
chamber. Also, one councillor can impact the thinking
of others – sometimes from clear across the city. Could
a councillor in Ward 2 (Etobicoke North) impact a
decision in Ward 36 (Scarborough Southwest) or Ward
27 (Toronto Centre-Rosedale)? Certainly.
Residents should meet, find common ground on
important issues such as development – the city isn’t
getting any smaller, and development and intensification are but two examples of pressures every resident
will feel.
Then there are city-wide issues such as transit,
where knowing how your candidate sits on the issue
is important for both your ward and the economic
viability of the city.
The 2014 municipal election is an opportunity for
residents across the city to dig deep into their communities, attend all-candidate debates, and pose
questions that need answering. The glamorous nature
of the mayor’s race will take on a life of its own, but
it’s the grassroots, nuts and bolts races in each ward
that truly deserve the attention of each and every
Torontonian.

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Walking a thin line at the hair salon
Well, it looks like I’m a tad
overdue for a haircut.
Ah, whom I trying to kid?
Truth be told, it’s actually
several tads. I should have
gone a long time ago.
What can I say? It’s the
thinning hair thing. Putting
off salon visits kinda goes
with the territory.
Of course, thinning is
just the politically correct
term. Truth is, evaporating is more like it. David
Copperfield couldn’t make
mine disappear any quicker.
(I mean it. He tried in one of
his shows in Vegas. You can
look it up on YouTube.)
Which brings me back to
the premise of this column.
When you have thinning
hair, you avoid getting it
cut. Your rationale is simple:
why pay a professional to
lop off what few measly
follicles you have left when
they’ll inevitably disappear
on their own – for free.
Alas, you have to get it
trimmed as regularly as
those who are not thinning
challenged. You have no

jamie wayne
BUT SERIOUSLY
choice.
When what little thinning
hair you have gets long,
it makes you look sloppy,
unkempt, absent-minded
professor-ish. And if you
wait too long to get it shorn,
you may spook the neighbour’s dog and face the
prospect of having the pup
snap your scary picture and
put it on his Facebook page
to get even.
So you get it done
eventually and that’s when
things get really embarrassing. You see, when a guy like
me with thinning hair slinks
into a salon, he can feel all
the energy get sucked right
out of the room.
Not so when a hunk
with a mane like a young
Antonio Banderas sashays
in through the doors. The
moment a Banderas clone
arrives, the hairstylists
fight over him like it was
a 20-girl Battle Royale in

Wrestlemania. And then
the lucky winner does the
samba to a Gloria Estefan
medley while cutting his
hair, pausing only occasionally to drool.
Meanwhile, the poor
soul who draws the short
straw and has to do mine
grumbles to herself all the
way through, stopping only
intermittently to hum Peggy
Lee’s Is That All There is.
And that, sadly, is the
good news.
The bad news is what
happens after she’s done.
She makes a huge production over what my hair looks
like from behind. She gives
me a gigantic mirror to
hold and spins me around
and around and around in
the chair so I can get more
angles of the back of my
head than those 50 camera
crews give you of the winning touchdown at the
Super Bowl. The only thing
missing is slo-mo, instant
replay and me getting my
head doused with Gatorade.
Hey, my hair looks look

great from behind after she’s
done, no question. But it
never thins in the back so
it always looks pretty good
back there.
Besides, where else do
you check out the back of
your head except in a salon?
The rest of the world sees
only the front and it’s the
front that’s the problem
here and it’s doing what it
always does, thinning away
like there’s no tomorrow.
It was thinning when I
dropped into the salon. It
was thinning while it was
being shampooed. It was
thinning while it was being
cut. It was thinning while it
was being blow-dried. It was
thinning while it was being
styled. And to add insult
to injury? All that spinning
around in the chair makes it
thin twice as fast. I tell ya, I
can’t catch a break.
Jamie Wayne is a lifelong
columnist, who takes writing
very seriously. The topics?
Not so much. His column appears
Thursdays. Contact him at jamie.
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Choose peace in a dangerous time Trees and hydro wires don’t mix
To the editor:
We live in a dangerous time;
a time when religious differences, economic disparities
and political ideologies are
threatening to rip apart the
fabric of humanity.
Anger and violence is
rampant in a world where
individuals and nations
have replaced reason with
ignorance. Now more than
ever, peace seems to be an
elusive dream that continues
to haunt us.
What is peace and how can
we achieve it? We may think
of peace as a pact or agreement between countries or as
some kind of truce between
warring factions. We place
our belief in peace in the
form of military armaments
or in papers signed by government leaders or even in
economic treaties. In doing
so, we materialize peace into
something tangible, specific
and quantifiable. In short, we
have reduced the concept of
peace into something we can
see, or touch, or even buy.
Perhaps it is because of this
reason that real and lasting

peace continues to elude us.
For peace, like love, or faith,
or hope, is that which springs
from within our individual
consciousness.
Its definition is not linked
to a particular god, or religion
or ideology. It is realized not
by that which is extrinsic to
us, but by embarking on a
spiritual quest deep within
ourselves to find a stillness
of the mind and the spirit.
Peace is the awakening of an
inner tranquillity that gives
us strength and clarity in an
otherwise ever-changing and
ever challenging world.
Peace therefore begins with
the individual and not with
the society. For societies and
hence, for nations to become
truly peaceful, it is imperative that we, as individuals,
first seek the true meaning
of peace within ourselves.
Only then can we hope to
lead more tolerant and fulfilling lives within our communities and with our fellow
human beings throughout
the world.
Just as anger and misunderstanding can manifest into

cacophony and violence, so
too can peace manifest into
harmony and understanding.
A peaceful individual is the
precursor to a peaceful family,
society, and ultimately, to a
peaceful nation.
In a time of increasing
intolerance and militarization
in many parts of the world,
let us each make a common
resolution to actively seek
out the meaning of peace in
our lives.
Let us stop blaming each
other for our problems and
start listening and becoming
more accepting of our differences. Let us stop placing
our hope for peace in guns,
and bombs and war. Each
of us has a choice to make.
We can choose to continue
down the path of violence and
ignorance. Or we can choose
to seek out a new path that
leads us in the direction of
peace and reason.
For the sake of our children,
our future and our planet,
let’s choose wisely and effect
positive change in the world.
Let’s choose peace.
Jeevan Bhagwat

To the editor:
This may not be the best time
to mention this but until city
planners stop planting trees
under the hydro lines, we are
going to have problems with
them as they grow.
Has anyone else noticed
the hack job Hydro gives the
mature trees that are growing
along the boulevards of our
fair city?
If there are going to be
conflicts, why not plant these
expensive resources some-

where else? There are lots of
better places, sometimes just
across the road.
Over the past couple of
years at least half of these
newly planted trees have
been planted directly under
the hydro lines.
This is stupid, inexcusable
and a massive waste of our
money. Is this some kind of
bizarre make-work project for
the city forestry employees
and its subcontractors?
If the people of Scarborough

would like to look at a few
examples of what I am talking about drive south on
McCowan or Brimley roads
from Ellesmere Avenue. What
has been done to many of
these trees is shameful and
it looks ridiculous.
Once again our tax dollars
are hard at work.
Chris Belfontaine

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Independent heat, light systems needed
To the editor:
Some years back, the heating
and lighting systems were
independent. When one
system broke down, the other
was still functioning.
In the name of modernization/efficiency, we have made
the systems inter-dependent.
If there is a power outage,
then there was no heating
as well in spite of the fact the
heating was mainly done by
gas.
Older homes, which still

depend on the exclusive gas
so these natural calamities,
heating system, at least had
which seem to be more frethe heat and some residents
quent now, have less effect
were also having hot coffee/
on our lives.
food as they used gas cookers.
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Residents who got a parking
ticket during the recent ice storm
can plead their case to the City
of Toronto.
Overnight street parking is
banned in
many
parts
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city, and
requires
a permit in others.
On Monday, Dec. 30, the city
advised people to request cancellation of a ticket by describing
the special circumstances in an
application to dispute the fine at
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Completed application
forms can be sent by e-mail to
parkingmeters@toronto.ca or
faxed to 416-696-3652. Parking
tickets can also be disputed at
civic centres.
Knox Nearly New
Shop reopens
The Nearly New Shop at Knox
United Church in Scarborough
has reopened to the public for
the winter season.
The shop features a selection
of clothing, shoes, towels, drapes
and other nearly new items.
Proceeds from sales go to sup-

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port church programs.
The shop is open every
Wednesday until the summer.
For shop hours during the
rest of the winter, call the church
office at 416-293-4424.
Knox United Church is located
at 2569 Midland Ave. at the
northeast corner of Sheppard
Avenue.
No murders last year
in 43 Division
It’s now official: Toronto police’s
43 Division in southeast
Scarborough recorded
no homicides in
2013.
That’s a big
change from the
p re v i o u s ye a r
when the division
was dealing with the
worst shooting in the city’s history: a gunfight at a Danzig Street
townhouse complex that left two
dead and two dozen injured.
“After the Danzig shooting we
really looked at how 43 Division
is structured and they came
up with the idea of having the
neighbourhood safety unit,”
said Const. Randall Arsenault,
43 Division’s community engagement officer.
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be out there and engage, engage,
engage.”
A total of six people were murdered within the boundaries of
43 Division in 2012.
The last homicide in the division occurred on Oct. 28, 2012 at
a home on Military Trail.
Agincourt Chess
club meets
The Agincourt Chess Club meets
this Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.
at the L’Amoreaux Community
Centre, 2000 McNicoll Ave.
Those interested in playing
chess are invited to take part.
There are no fees, teaching or
tournaments.
For more information, call
Luke Stets at 416-490-6649.

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The man charged with murder
in the Boxing Day death of a
Scarborough woman was also
charged with murder more than a
decade ago in the death of a man
killed with a meat cleaver.
In July 2002, Patrick Wai Leung
Lee, now 62, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter and was sentenced to four years, 11 months
in prison in the slaying of Hing
Kuen Tsang, 38, a loan shark to
whom Lee owed $48,000.

At 11:30 p.m. on Boxing Day,
police were called to a building
on Alton Towers Circle for an
unknown trouble.
To Nu “Sandy” Hua, 64, a
retired driving instructor, was
pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy found she died of
“sharp force injuries.”
Lee, a retired real estate agent,
was arrested and charged with
second-degree murder on Dec.
30.

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underfund the TTC so that
fare hikes, service cuts, overcrowding and longer wait
times are necessary.”
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vote on a modest hike of
annual operating subsidy
provided to the TTC. To see
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The TTC commuter lot at
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
is now closed for renovation
work.
The structure, which
shut down Monday, isn’t
scheduled to re-open until
fall of 2015. During that
time the existing lot will be
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along with a upper-level
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The co-writer of an iconic
pop song referencing the
TTC has announced he is
running in the 2014 mayoral
election.
Jazz saxophonist Richard
Underhill registered his candidacy Jan. 2 for the mayorship and took to Twitter
(@richunderhill) to
announce his intention to
best Mayor Rob Ford in this
year’s election, scheduled
for 10 months from now.
Underhill is a member
of the jazz-funk ensemble
the Shuffle Demons, best
known for their 1980s hit
Spadina Bus.

Councillors’ transit
votes posted
The city’s largest advocacy
group for transit users has
posted the voting records of
Toronto councillors on key
transit funding votes ahead
of a budget vote.
TTCriders posted
the results of votes held
between 2011 and 2013,
which resulted in service
cuts to the TTC and are the
reason, according to the
group, transit fares were
hiked again this year.
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press release posted on the
group’s website.
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The ice storm before
Christmas was one to remember, and in an election year,
Scarborough residents may
remember whether or not
they heard from their local
politicians when things were
at their darkest.
Tens of thousands of area
households went without
power for days, some were
dark for a full week, and it’s
hard to guess how much
information got or didn’t get
to residents who needed it.
But politicians who used
Twitter – such as city councillors Paul Ainslie, Michelle
B e ra rd i n e t t i a n d Ga r y
Crawford in Scarborough’s
hard-hit south – generally
drew praise from constituents
who could read their posts.
Twitter updates
For them, Twitter offered
frequent updates and, particularly in the later stages
of storm recovery, specifics
on which warming centres
were open in Scarborough
and where Toronto Hydro
crews were working.
Politicians who didn’t use
the social media platform,
such as Scarborough East
Councillor Ron Moeser, have
heard complaints about it
from their constituents.

Staff photo/IRVIN MINTZ

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is joined by a number of Scarborough MPPs and Toronto
Hydro staff as they survey the damage to electrical lines on Bush Drive in the Old Kingston
and Morrish roads area of Highland Creek during the ice storm.

“I’ve always been a returnthe-telephone-call type of
guy,” Moeser said Monday,
but added he may try a
Twitter account this year.
After the storm, Moeser
said, he visited some seniors
to see if they were all right
and reported fallen trees that
had blocked sidewalks and
roads. “I did a lot of driving
through the community and
a lot of people knew my home
number.”
Some residents of his
ward, however, were asking
where Moeser was. One,
Tracy Forsyth, visited his

constituency office in Port
Union and found the power
on, but the place “locked up
tight, no signs in the window
(on) how to reach him.”
Forsyth wanted the Port
Union Community Centre
opened as a warming centre,
but this didn’t happen, she
said in a letter, adding people
in the ward, if they found out
about it, were told to seek
shelter at the Toronto Police
43 Division station, which
was at capacity, and then
on Dec. 27 at Heron Park
Community Centre “while
the lights flashed and blinked

about upcoming community events at the Port Union
Centre. Couldn’t Moeser push
for this (centre) to be opened
sooner?”
Moeser said that question
should wait for a review councillors will do on “where the
gaps were” in the city’s storm
response.
He said he staffed the
constituency office himself
but conceded it was closed
on some days, because he
gave his staff time off between
the holidays and then caught
the flu. Still, Moeser said his
work answering phones never

stopped.
Though its main aim will
be to ask the province to pay
for part of the storm cleanup, a special Toronto council
meeting tomorrow is the first
chance for city politicians to
talk about what went right or
wrong after the storm.
Some said the cr isis
showed communication
needs to improve, particularly because people, even
councillors, weren’t given
specific information on where
utility crews were working
or when power would come
back on.
“I didn’t know more
than the general public,”
Scarborough-Agincourt
Councillor Mike Del Grande
said.
Ainslie criticized Hydro
for having an “antiquated”
online map displaying outages by postal code instead
of by street.
Moeser also complained
about a lack of precision from
city authorities. “All they could
do was give me a guess” on
when power would return, he
said, adding residents were
unhappy when the guesses
didn’t pan out.
Del Grande said he didn’t
want the recovery to be
a political battleground,
but having both a mayor
and deputy mayor making
announcements, “it was confusing as to who was calling

the shots. Who ultimately is
the quarterback?”
The city has to clearly state
who’s in charge, so there can
be one message coming from
one place, said Del Grande.
Several Scarborough
councillors criticized fellow
politicians for appearing at
“photo ops” with utility crews
or residents, some singling
out a visit by Ontario Premier
Kathleen Wynne and local
MPPs to Moeser’s ward.

“

It was confusing
as to who was
calling the shots.
Who ultimately
is the quarterback?
– Scarborough-Agincourt
Councillor Mike Del Grande

Scarborough-Rouge River
Councillor Chin Lee said he
went to warming centres
but didn’t want to get on
television or have his picture
taken, as some politicians
did. Opinions differed on the
“photo ops,” Lee said. “Some
people got upset. Others were
very happy to see their leaders
there, showing concern for
everyone.” Like Moeser and
Del Grande, Lee wasn’t using
social media, but said he sent
updates to those on his email
distribution list.

Minister apologizes to residents who stood in line for grocery gift cards
A m e m b e r o f P re m i e r
Kathleen Wynne’s government apologized this week
to everyone in Toronto who
had to stand in line to receive
a gift card for groceries after
the ice storm.
“It should not have happened, especially at the end,
when there were no cards
left,” Ontario Community
Safety Minister Madeleine
Meilleur said in an interview.
But Meilleur, whose ministry was responsible for
distributing the cards to the
city’s Ontario Works offices,
said she does not regret the
program, “because we were

able to help 8,500 families.”
Frustration over the distribution of the cards was especially high in Scarborough
where hundreds stood in line
at Ontario Works offices for
cards that had already been
distributed.
Scarborough frustration
As Scarborough North
Employment and Social
Services on Milner Avenue
prepared to open at 8:30
a.m. last Thursday, a security guard told a crowd of
several hundred gathered
in the lobby below to leave
unless they had already been

registered for a card.
Even this did not make the
situation clear to some, who
said they had registered on a
previous visit Tuesday for a
card but, unlike others, did
not have a slip of paper with
a number to prove it.
Other Ontario Works
offices in Scarborough
were also turning people
away by mid-morning last
Thursday.
O p p o s i t i o n M P Ps i n
Toronto called the gift card
distribution a hastily thoughtout scheme done more for
Wynne’s benefit than for
the people who spent hours
in lines last week and often

were turned away emptyhanded.
That result was “worse
than useless” because it
left so many frustrated, said
Parkdale-High Park MPP
Cheri DiNovo, adding the
program, by tapping into a
“huge and ongoing” need for
food in Toronto, revealed the
Liberal government doesn’t
understand the extent of poverty in the city.
A New Democrat, DiNovo
said she appreciates the
people and companies that
contributed funds for cards,
but many who arrived at the
15 city offices were turned
away and large numbers

of the neediest, including
seniors, could not have stood
in lines anyway.
‘Electioneering’
“It’s a pretty cynical kind of
electioneering” for the Wynne
government, considering a
provincial election is expected
this year, DiNovo added.
Doug Holyday, the city’s
only Progressive Conservative
MPP, said the idea for the program apparently came from
the grocery chains and was a
good one, but the distribution
was done poorly.
“They did it so quickly they
botched the program,” recall-

ing how cameras had captured Wynne delivering food
baskets to Toronto homes.
“When the (gift card) distribution fell apart, you haven’t
seen her since.”
Meilleur acknowledged
problems with the Toronto
distribution, including not
having all the gift cards ready
when they were needed.
“We were not expecting to
have such an interest,” she
said. “Actually, we got four
times what we were expecting.”
– Mike Adler

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Frequent mayoral candidate Kevin Clarke will not run this year
Scarborough resident announces his retirement from public politics
MIKE ADLER
madler@insidetoronto.com
Kevin Clarke, a formerly
homeless Scarborough
resident who has run to be
Toronto’s mayor or for Ontario
legislature seats many times
over the past two decades,
says he is officially retired

from public politics due to a
recurring health condition.
“I will assure you this decision was not made lightly
for the greatest joy I have
received in life is defending
the needs of all,” said Clarke,
the leader of the People’s
Party of Ontario, in a recent
release.

HOMELESS
Clarke, who was a student
teacher in Scarborough and
sold cars before becoming
homeless for several years,
said he was always motivated
by “loving kindness” toward
others.
“Poor health or not, that

Tree debris clean-up
Toronto’s city-wide tree debris removal started Friday, January
3, 2014 and is expected to take approximately eight weeks,
weather permitting.
The City will haul away all tree branches from front yards and
roadsides and will include those that have fallen on private
property if they are less than 15 cm (six inches) in diameter
and have been taken to the curb. Please neatly stack limbs/
branches with butt ends towards the road for City pick-up.
Place wood debris at the front edge of your property as close
to the sidewalk or road as possible without blocking either.
City crews will not collect large limbs (more than 15 cm or
six inches in diameter) from private trees that have fallen on
private property. Property owners should contact a private
contractor for this. A City permit is not required to remove
damaged or downed trees that are hazardous, however many
trees can be saved with proper care and pruning.
For residents that live in the Asian long-horned beetle
(ALHB) quarantine area in Etobicoke, City crews and private
contractors will dispose of this debris in an appropriate
manner. Residents are advised not to take this wood out of
the Federal quarantine area. Check toronto.ca/trees for more
information.
You may monitor the debris removal progress by checking a
detailed map on the City’s web site at toronto.ca.

mission I will carry on, seeking public office or not,” the
release said.
Clarke, who often spoke
about meeting the needs
of children, the poor, and
homeless people during his
campaigns, started seeking provincial office in the
mid-1990s and last stood as

a candidate in the Toronto
Centre riding byelection in
December.
SINCE 2000
Known for shouting his
convictions and drawing
his name and slogans on
sidewalks in chalk, he ran for

mayor of Toronto in every
municipal election held in
the city since 2000.
As candidate registration
for the mayoral race in 2014
began last Thursday, however,
Clarke said he and his party
would back a new candidate,
Troy J. Young.

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in the 30th annual Scarborough Sharks New Years Classic hockey tournament Friday afternoon. Leaside won the game 2-0.

Sharks win five medals
at hockey tournament
The Scarborough Sharks Girls
Hockey Association managed
to top last year’s results at
their 30th annual New Year’s
Classic hockey tournament
which ran Jan. 3 to 5.
The tournament attracted
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age divisions (novice, atom,
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them and settling for silver
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were represented in. That
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results in which they were
also represented in five finals,
earning two gold and three
silver medals.
Here are the Scarborough
Sharks gold medal winners:
PEEWEE BB: the Sharks
peewee BB team won the
gold medal game 1-0 over
Clarence Rockland Lightning
after winning their elimination game 2-0 over the
Kingston Ice Wolves. In the
preliminary round, the Sharks
went undefeated with one
win (1-0 over the Markham-

Stouffville Stars) and three ties
(1-1 with Clarence Rockland
Lightning and 0-0 with both
the Oakville Hornets and
Nepean Wildcats). Amazingly,
their brilliant defence and
goaltending allowed them to
win gold while scoring only
five goals in six games!
BANTAM B: t h e
Scarborough Sharks bantam
B team won the gold medal
game 2-1 over the Ottawaarea Kanata Rangers. Both
teams finished the preliminary round with three wins
and a tie but Kanata got the
tiebreaker nod for first place.
Scarborough, however, won
its elimination game (second
vs. third) 3-1 over the Smith
Falls Cubs. In the preliminary
round Scarborough’s three
wins were against North
York Storm 3-2, Smith Falls
Cubs 1-0 and Durham West
Lightning 3-1) along with a
1-1 tie versus the Etobicoke
Dolphins.
SENIOR A: the Scarborough
Sharks women’s senior A
team won the gold medal
game 4-1 over the Sudbury
Lady Wolves. The two teams
finished up the preliminary
round with identical records
of three wins and one tie, with
the 3-3 tie being against each

other. (Scarborough’s three
wins were 5-4 over Oshawa
Lady Generals and 6-0 over
both Timmins and Markham
Stoufville. Sudbury, however,
got the first-place bye while
Scarborough won its elimination game 2-1 over Durham
West Lightning.
Silver medals
The two Sharks finalists
were:
MIDGET BB: the Sharks
midget B ‘Cole’ team settled
for the silver medal with a 2-1
loss to Wilmot Wolverines in
a battle of undefeated teams
(Scarborough two wins, two
ties; Wilmot one win, three
ties; each won their semifinal
contest).
INTERMEDIATE A: the
Sharks intermediate A team
settled for the silver medal
with a 3-2 loss to the Whitby
Wolves. Scarborough had
finished in first place with
three wins (including a 2-1
win over Whitby) and a tie;
while Whitby, besides its loss
to Scarborough, won all three
of its other preliminary round
games.

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sports

Don Montgomery Memorial
hockey tournament slated
Iqaluit team to take part in SHA tourney
The Scarborough Hockey
Association is hosting its Don
Montgomery Memorial select
tournament today through
Sunday, with more than
50 teams signed up to take
part.
There’s no doubt of which
team will take the honour
travelling the greatest distance, with a team from
Iqaluit represented in the
10-team senior midget division.
Teams are split into nine
different age divisions from
minor novice to the juvenile
division, all at the select (allstar house league) level.
Arenas where games will
be played include: Don
Montgomery Community
Recreation Centre, 2467
Eglinton Ave. E; Commander
Arena, 140 Commander Blvd;
and Agincourt Recreation
Centre, 31 Glen Watford Dr.

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A Scarborough Ice Raiders player, red sweater, slides the puck
past the East York Bulldogs goalie during last year’s Don
Montgomery Memorial Hockey Tournament. This year’s
tournament, hosted by the Scarborough Hockey Association,
begins today and continues through to Sunday.

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Olivia Reid of the Leaside
Wildcats and Amber Chow of
the Scarborough Sharks fight
for the puck during a game in
the 30th annual Scarborough
Sharks New Years Classic hockey
tournament Friday. Leaside won
the game 2-0. For more on the
tourney, see page 12.
Staff photo/NICK PERRY

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The separate facility is an organized music
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Regular recitals are held, giving students
opportunity to apply and demonstrate their
skills and talents in a performance setting.
A special Honors Recital is held annually.
Students are selected by audition to perform
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i n t h e h e a r t o f S c a r b o ro u g h w h e re
adults and kids are invited to get lost in
creativity.
Whether you’ve never picked up a paint
brush before, or were born with one in
hand, you can choose from a wide variety
of ceramic pieces and evoke the artist
within to create a one-of-a-kind piece. The
Clay Emporium provides the glazes, the
brushes and even the techniques.
Once you’ve created your materpiece,

they heat the ceramic in a kiln. You come
back in a few days to pick it up, then it’s
yours to keep.
As the cold winds continue to blow
outside, cozy up indoors with the kids or a
group of friends to take part in workshops.
Starting the week of January 20th, children
art classes begin. Classes for 5 to 8 year
olds take place on Wednesdays from 4:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and classes for 9 to 12
year olds take place Thursdays from 4:00
p.m. t0 5:00 p.m.

The next P.A. day camp is on Friday
Januar y 24. Register now by calling
647-722-9711.
The Clay Emporium plays host to many
social gatherings. Whether it’s a bridal
shower, team building event, ladies’ night
or a child’s birthday party, it is the perfect
place for a day of fun! The friendly staff is
on hand to help set up any special decor
and assist guests with their works of art.
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ON EXHIBIT: Photographers Christopher Little and Robert
Wiggington are featured in a show at Cedar Ridge Studio
Gallery. Clockwise from top: Little at the opening reception
of his Electrical Ubiquity exhibit Sunday at gallery; Little chats
with Melanie Chakravorty and Anson Chan; Visitors mill
about at the opening reception; Wiggington chats with
Yvonne Rudd and her husband Russell; another shot of
Wiggington and the Rudds. The free exhibit continues until
tomorrow at the gallery at 25 Confederation Dr.
Staff photos/Dan Pearce

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Number of Scarborough centres included in plan
>>>from page 1
They won’t, however, be
called priority centres anymore.
Toronto Council voted
in 2012 to call them something else, because since
1999 people “have expressed
concern that the term ‘priority centre’ can contribute to
negative perceptions of the
area where these community

centres are located,” a report
last month said, suggesting
they be known instead as
“community centres where
programs are free.”
Debated for years
City councillors have
debated for years on the
extent recreational programs should be paid from

the “common pot” or by the
individuals who use them,
said Mihevc, who favours the
former approach.
“No one questions the
right of anybody to go into
any library at any time,” he
argued.
What council will decide
later this month is whether
the expansion of free programs will start, as currently

budgeted, after Labour Day in
September, or earlier, as the
committee had wanted.
Making programs free
at the 16 new centres after
Canada Day would cost just
over $1 million more this year,
said Mihevc.
The city plans on continuing the Welcome Policy but
expects to spend $1 less on
it each year after the expan-

sion.
It also plans to wait 10
years before reviewing the
no-fee status of the original
23 priority centres.
A group called Community
Recreation For All said the
city shouldn’t start charging
fees at those centres even if
surrounding neighbourhoods
contain fewer low-income
residents than they once

did. “As the city intentionally
builds mixed-income neighbourhoods, it must ensure
that these developments do
not result in service loss and
cater only to people with high
incomes,” the group said last
year in a letter.

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The Customer Service Representative is responsible for ensuring that
all customer concerns through phone, email or otherwise are
professionally handled and logged following the policies and procedures
laid out in the Circulation Department. You will also be responsible for
data entry and tracking entries made into our system as directed by the
policies and procedures and by your manager.
Position Accountabilities:
• The Customer Service team handles a high volume of calls relating to
customer issues and general inquiries
• From receipt of a customer concern, the customer service
representative must take ownership of the call to ensure the issue has
been fully resolved in a professional and expedient manner by
resolving the issue personally or ensuring the appropriate party has
resolved the concern to provide superior service to our customers
• Data entry into the internal Inca system
• Various duties as assigned by the Department Manager
What we are looking for:
• Energetic and professional customer service professional
• Experience in a customer service role is an asset
• Ability to work and make decisions in a fast-paced, deadline driven
environment
• Ability to effectively listen and react with a solution
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a positive attitude
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
• Proficiency in MS office
Please email your resume to: gceresoli@insidetoronto.com

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AVAILABLE
Reliable people are required
immediately for part time courier
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The successful candidate will:
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• Own a reliable vehicle.
• Be able to work the following
Thursday - 2am - 2pm
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Great knowledge of the Toronto
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All-Purpose Realty is looking for part-time &
full-time customer service representatives
to work from their office at 55 Town Centre
Court, Scarborough, located across the
street from the Scarborough Town Centre.
The individual should have good English
communication and computer skills and
prior customer service experience in
Canada. Some knowledge of the Canadian
real estate or mortgage industry would be
an asset.
Please send resumes and salary
expectations to
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We require a Spanish speaking
person with a flair for fashion
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Health Care/Medical

Cards of Thanks
Holy Spirit Thou make
me see everything and
show me the way to
reach my ideal. You
who give the divine
gift to forgive and
forget the wrong that
is done to me and
who
are
in
all
instances of my life
with me. I, in this
short dialogue, want
to thank You for
everything
and
confirm once more
that I never want to be
separated from You
no matter how great
the material desire
may be. I want to be
with You and my
loved ones in Your
perpetual
glory.
Amen. Person must
pray
this
3
consecutive
days
without stating one’s
wish. After 3rd day
your wish will be
granted no matter
how difficult it may
be. Promise to publish
this as soon as your
favour
has
been
grated. Our Mother of
Perpetual Help
Thank you J.A.

Meet some new friends while learning how
to thrive in this challenging world.
This time will include classes in Knitting, various
Bible studies, Mandarin and Prayer. Free
childcare is provided for babies and children to 5
years of age. We begin the year with a potluck on
January 15 at 9:30 a.m. Please bring a favourite
dish. The classes will begin the following
Wednesday on January 22. First Alliance Church
is located at 3250 Finch Avenue East, northwest
corner at Finch/Bridletowne Circle.
416-494-3269 ext. 21

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WHEN: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE:
Rouge Park CONTACT: Sheryl
Santos, 905-713-6007, birdcount@
rougepark.com COST: Free
Volunteers are needed to count
birds in the park or in
their backyards.
Whether you are
an experienced
birder, nature
enthusiast, or just want to
learn more about Rouge Park and its
birds. No experience necessary.

Congratulations to Eva Smillie who
won a $250 Grocery Gift Card.
Metroland Media Toronto also donated
$250 worth of groceries to the Daily
Bread Food Bank on Eva’s behalf.
Thank you to everyone who
participated in our contest.
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